The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 77
The vizir's advice once more struck the king as being good, and he sent for his son, who lost no time in obeying the summons, and standing respectfully with downcast eyes before the king asked for his commands.
Who acts: advice, son, time, king · What happens: strike, be, send, lose, obey, stand · To what, where: king, summons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (advice, son, time, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vizir | case |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 struck | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 struck | advmod |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 good | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 good | cop |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 struck | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sent | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lost | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 son | acl:relcl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lost | obj |
| 25 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 26 obeying | mark |
| 26 | obeying | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 time | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 summons | det |
| 28 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 obeying | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 asked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 asked | cc |
| 31 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 asked | advcl |
| 32 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 31 standing | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 eyes | case |
| 34 | downcast | downcast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 eyes | amod |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 standing | obl |
| 36 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 39 asked | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 asked | nsubj |
| 39 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | parataxis |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 commands | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 commands | nmod:poss |
| 42 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 asked | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the vizir's advice | the king | once property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Instrument | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | the vizir's advice not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | past | advice | for advice's son | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lose | past | advice's son | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | obey | gerund | no time not said here | the summons | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | the king not said here | with downcast eyes; respectfully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | for advice's commands | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | command | advice | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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